Rajkot: A six-year-old family feud allegedly resurfaced in the death of a 16-year-old boy, who was allegedly killed by two brothers in Porbandar district in an act of revenge for the murder of their father, police said. The brothers allegedly took the teenager to an isolated spot near Odadar village, attacked him with a knife…
Teacher Nathabhai Chavda of Palitana’s Zaverchand Meghani Primary School rewards student with 100% attendance with weekly cycle ride Rajkot: Faced with chronically empty classrooms and high absenteeism, a primary school teacher in Bhavnagar district turned attendance around with a simple but innovative idea. Over the past four years, Natha Chavda helped raise attendance from a…
Video grab of the accused, Faizal, being thrashed in Bhavnagar Rajkot: A video purportedly showing Bhavnagar police personnel beating a murder accused at public places during a crime reconstruction exercise went viral on social media on Saturday.The accused, Faizal alias Khatki Lakhani, 25, was arrested by Nilambaug police on Friday in connection with the murder…
Rajkot: A peon at Indian Bank’s Ranjitsagar Road branch in Jamnagar was booked alongside an accomplice for allegedly stealing mortgaged gold ornaments worth Rs 39.48 lakh from the bank vault and swapping them with counterfeit jewelry.The theft came to light after the City A Division police detained a man attempting to sell suspicious gold ornaments,…
Palanpur: The murder of a 42-year-old IIFL Finance branch manager, whose body was found in his car on a road near Prantij earlier this week, was allegedly plotted by a woman and her lover, apparently because they didn’t want to repay the loans taken from his company and wanted the pledged gold ornaments back.Prantij police…
Rajkot: A dispute triggered by alleged repeated staring between two groups of motorcyclists turned fatal on Thursday afternoon when a 40-year-old man was beaten to death on the Zalansar-Dhoraji road. Junagadh district police arrested two 21-year-old men from Dhoraji late Thursday night in connection with the murder.The victim, Jayesh Vinjhuda, a Dhoraji resident, was riding…
Palanpur: The Banaskantha Local Crime Branch (LCB) arrested three men for allegedly honey-trapping a gov school teacher and extorting Rs 1.15 lakh from him by threatening to implicate him in a false rape case.According to police, the victim, who is currently teaching at a school in a village in the Danta, had earlier worked at…
Nirav Dike with students at Shree Navchetan Andhjan Mandal in Madhaparnear Bhuj. He underwent two years of specialised training inKeralam before taking up teaching Rajkot: For children with visual and physical disabilities, a career in sports can often seem out of reach. But at a school in Madhapar near Bhuj, 26-year-old Nirav Dike is helping…
Science teacher Varun Dave built the AI-powered device, coding it torespond in local dialect Rajkot: “Kem cho?” asks a student. The Rs 1,000-robot answers — not in polished English or formal Gujarati but in the Kathiawadi dialect the child speaks at home.At Bavdi Primary School in Liliya taluka of Amreli district, where only one or…
A video shows Bhavnagar police allegedly beating a murder accused during a crime reconstruction. RAJKOT: A video purportedly showing Bhavnagar police personnel beating a murder accused at public places during a crime reconstruction exercise went viral on social media on Saturday.The accused, Faizal alias Khatki Lakhani, 25, was arrested by Nilambaug police on Friday in…
